What motherboards have Non-Z overclocking enabled for Pentium 3258?

[crashtech]

Ye, i've been overclocking Q8200. i've never use uefi to oc, can you link tutorial or sth?

There are plenty of Haswell overclocking tutorials out there, but I don't know of any specifically for the G3258. Basically as a first step you set the voltage to 1.2V and the multiplier to 40 and use a tool like CPU-Z to see of the changes have taken effect in the operating system. I think virtually all G3258 CPUs will do 4.0GHz @ 1.2V at the very least.

 

[justin4pack]

So I got everything together but I am having some trouble with the bios. I did an update because the current version was showing feb of 2014. So did the latest which was 6/14. It seems the multiplier is locked. I have plenty of voltage options and what not but cant adjust the multiplier. here is some screenies if anyone wants to throw some advice in. EDIT: when I set the config to all cores or per core or fixed. it will not let me go past 32.

 

[Burpo]

CPU Ratio set to Auto???

 

[justin4pack]

CPU Ratio set to Auto???

Like I said when its set to fixed/all cores/ per cores it will not go past 32.

 

[richierich1212]

Like I said when its set to fixed/all cores/ per cores it will not go past 32.

What mobo?

 

[justin4pack]

What mobo?

Biostar B85s3+ ver 6.x

 

[richierich1212]

Biostar B85s3+ ver 6.x

The Biostar website shows the latest BIOS dated 2/13/14, with no mention of adding Pentium Anniversary overclocking support.

 

[justin4pack]

The Biostar website shows the latest BIOS dated 2/13/14, with no mention of adding Pentium Anniversary overclocking support.

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=644#dl

see here. but I cant tell the difference

 

[cbn]

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=644#dl

see here. but I cant tell the difference

The BIOS dated 7/11/2013 had the following description:

Support Intel K series CPU overclocking

I would call Biostar to find out what is happening.

 

[justin4pack]

The BIOS dated 7/11/2013 had the following description:



I would call Biostar to find out what is happening.

I did email we will see what happens.

 

[richierich1212]

Technically the G3258 is not a K-series CPU.

 

[Burpo]

Bingo! You don't have a K processor, and that board shows no BIOS version for any other overclocking.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

I've been messing around further with my H81 pro btc (already in the list), currently on 4.5 GHz at 1.25V, will probably go higher. unfortunately the memory seems locked at 1333.

 

[justin4pack]

Technically the G3258 is not a K-series CPU.

The fact that it is Technially not labeled a "K" series should not matter. But My email to biostar also has this question in it so we will see.

 

[guitarizt2]

My Gigabyte B81M-H board works. Like the Gigabyte B85 board, it can't bump the vcore (1.2v max). I lucked out because I'm running @ 4.3 GHz. I ran 10 passes of intel burn test at max. I'll run 25 passes and try out 4.4 GHz eventually. My whole system only uses 78 watts during ibt at 4.3 GHz, and 70 watts under ibt stock (yay!).

I had to contact Gigabyte to get the F8 bios update for my motherboard. I mentioned that the Gigabyte H81M-DS2V has a bios update that supports oc'ing for the G3258, but the H81M-H does not. I'm assuming people would want to contact GB themselves to get the actual file, but if anyone is interested, I can upload the bios somewhere and post the screenshot I have from support, but hopefully it will be on the downloads page soon.

[edit] Actually here's the link they gave me:

http://esupport.gigabyte.com/FileUpload/Answer/2014/7/42802/H81MH.zip

 

[soto241]

Well, can you post screenshoot? It will be nice cuz i want to oc my h81-d3 and i need to conntact with gigabyte.

 

[guitarizt2]

Well, can you post screenshoot? It will be nice cuz i want to oc my h81-d3 and i need to conntact with gigabyte.

Nice, I didn't think there would be many people with H81 boards. I'm ecstatic they came out with an update so fast. I got in on the b85 + g3258 newegg deal, but I wanted to keep my h81 board because it was already in my pc, and because the resale value of the b85 board is twice as high on ebay.

I uploaded a few photos.

1) Conversation with Gigabyte support.
2) CPU-Z info.
3) CPU-Z mobo info.

https://imgur.com/a/94fCM

 

[cbn]

My Gigabyte B81M-H board works. Like the Gigabyte B85 board, it can't bump the vcore (1.2v max). I lucked out because I'm running @ 4.3 GHz. I ran 10 passes of intel burn test at max. I'll run 25 passes and try out 4.4 GHz eventually. My whole system only uses 78 watts during ibt at 4.3 GHz, and 70 watts under ibt stock (yay!).

You must mean H81M-H right?

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4791#ov

 

[guitarizt2]

You must mean H81M-H right?

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4791#ov

Yeah, sorry. I keep doing that and throwing a B in there sometimes not paying attention. I've already done it more than once on sd and ocn. I have the B85M-DS3H, but I'm going to sell it unopened.

 

[Charlie98]

I've got a G3220 in my new general purpose build with the Giga H81M-H... I might just have to try the G3258...

 

[crashtech]

Just for fun I thought I would try my 4770K in the GA-H81M-DS2V. While extremely limited because of the 1.2V ceiling, the "K" CPU is indeed overclockable on this budget board, at least to a rather lackluster 3.99GHz:

Maybe the ability to adjust multipliers is an all or nothing deal, and the way to keep savvy users from using low-end boards is to limit the voltage.

Of course, with only 2+1 power phases, it's likely this board couldn't take much more anyway, which is another good reason to limit voltage!

 

[guitarizt2]

I've got a G3220 in my new general purpose build with the Giga H81M-H... I might just have to try the G3258...

That's what I had too before the g3258 came out!

Just for fun I thought I would try my 4770K in the GA-H81M-DS2V. While extremely limited because of the 1.2V ceiling, the "K" CPU is indeed overclockable on this budget board, at least to a rather lackluster 3.99GHz:

Maybe the ability to adjust multipliers is an all or nothing deal, and the way to keep savvy users from using low-end boards is to limit the voltage.

Of course, with only 2+1 power phases, it's likely this board couldn't take much more anyway, which is another good reason to limit voltage!

Thanks, I was curious how an i5 or i7 would do.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Is there an issue with the H81 chipset? the H81 motherboards are so much cheaper than the other chipsets' boards. Multiple motherboards on sale new for around $50. Tigerdirect has one for $40 after $10 rebate (MSI H81M-P33).

Thanks,

-Gully

 

[crashtech]

The so-called issue is that they don't overclock well if at all, and tend to be stripped down on features compared to H87 or Z87, not to mention H97 or Z97. Currently they are the bottom of the barrel method to get into Intel LGA 1150. As long as you don't expect much, there's not really a problem. Look closely at the feature sets before you buy, many users can be well satisfied with an H81.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

Dunno, mine clocks fine, now testing 4.7Ghz on 1.35V, so far so good. Maybe trying to clock a quad that far would get you in trouble, kind of depends on how much power electronics is around the socket and what's allowed in the bios. Msi looks limited to 1.2V on H81, so those don't clock far I guess.

Main downsides: only 2 memory slots, usually low numbers of usb and sata connections, sli / crossfire impossible.